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My point is this: the cost of a VPN subscription shouldn't be compared to the cost of a subscription streaming service, because 1) they serve two very different purposes, and 2) when you break it down the VPN sub always wins. 😉

I know, and you're right. It was just meant to serve as an expression of how surprised I was by the price.

No holiday sales, no spring cleaning sales, no bulk discounts, nothing. And I view that as a positive thing.

So do I.

Apparently, people get upset when you tell them that you were surprised by something you didn't expect. 

Anyway, let's not make that discussion about my view on the price of a VPN; I feel like this is kind of irrelevant. 

What's more important, do you know if they blocked all those 123Movies websites? After all, this is the most important requirement I have.

So what do you do when a new movie comes out that you want to watch?

Interesting. What is that "private torrent tracker"? How exactly do you download from it?

That's what I tried at first, but they blocked the website I use.

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I just didn't expect it to be this much. After all, two years of this would cost me €120. I expected it to be more like €50. So I guess in this case, it is about the money; after all, there is a reason why we pirate ;)

Personally, I prefer to give my money to Mullvad than to Netflix.

Don't worry, so would I. There is no way I'm supporting this company. It was just supposed to be a comparison. 

While that would probably work, as I already said, I do not want to pay for one. It's less about the money but more about that I'd have to give them all my information - my name, credit card details and so on. And I am not willing to do that, as a VPN is only private until the government or whoever asks for all your data, which would include the Website and the fact that I visited it.

Well that's that then. I also have no idea what to try anymore... I guess you'll just have to wait until some random update fixes the issue. Sorry.

Edit: Since you reinstalled everything, I think it could be some cache on your system that went bad. That would explain why both the Flatpak and native versions don't work and why the rest of your system works. But I have no idea where that cache might be...

This just can't be...

After some deep digging, I found one last Idea. Try launching steam with the -vgui flag and let me know if that works.

I use the Firefox flatpak on multiple different desktops and distros and I've never seen this issue. All on wayland (no difference on x11 either). Weird.

Okay... Now that you have the non flatpak steam, could you remove flatpak and xdg-desktop-portal*?

Reboot and launch steam again.

This is the last idea I have for now... If this also doesn't help, it is probably a different issue than this and this, and you should report it to valve.

I am pretty sure that it has to do something specificially with the Steam Flatpak

That is also possible. But then why is it working for everyone else? I used the steam flatpak multiple times today with no issues. I guess you could also ask the same question for the system package issue theory.

How about the package manager version? Is that working? That could give some hints on whether it's the system or the Flatpak package.

Arch, yes. This is what all the people who had to remove xdg Desktop portal use. How could they remove it if it's a dependency of flatpak? Maybe they don't have flatpak.

If you have too much time on your hands, you could try another fresh arch installation on another hard-drive. If it works there, we know it has to be a system package. If it doesn't, it's probably the Flatpak.